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Funding: This work was supported by EXPOSOME-NL. EXPOSOME-NL is funded through the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO grant number 024.004.017). Geo-data were collected as part of the Geoscience and Health Cohort Consortium (GECCO), which was financially supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw, Project number: 91118017), and Amsterdam UMC.
Disclosures: Erik Timmermans has no disclosures to report.
References and notes:
1‘Changes in neighbourhood walkability and incident cardiovascular diseases: a population-based cohort study of three million adults covering 24 years’ will be presented during Young Investigator Award - Population Science and Public Health on 3 April at 11:30 to 12:30 CET on the Open Stage and has been recently published: Meijer P, Liu M, Lam TM, Koop Y, Pinho MGM, Vaartjes I, Beulens JWJ, Grobbee DE, Lakerveld J, Timmermans, EJ. Changes in neighbourhood walkability and incident CVD: A population-based cohort study of three million adults covering 24 years. Environ Res 2025;274:121367.
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3Lam TM, Wang Z, Vaartjes I, et al. Development of an objectively measured walkability index for the Netherlands. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2022;19:50.
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